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Betty White On January 17th, 1922, Betty Marion White was born in a nearby Oak Park hospital in Illinois. She was an only child to her parent Horace and Tess White. Her father was an Electrical Engineer and her mother was a homemaker. When White had turned 2 her small family had moved from their Illinois home to Los Angeles. She knew from the start that she had wanted to act and or, produce a television show. Betty got her start working as an assistant at a local TV station, and by the early 50’s she had launched her first Television show, Life With Elizabeth, which was developed with George Tibbles. White’s life was just beginning at this time, and she never knew that her life was going to change so much over the next few years. Her spouses, occupations, and rise to fame had all changed in the matter of years! First, Betty was a very attractive young lady back in the day. She was well known for her sense of humor, and love of animals. Betty was a very caring lady, and very beautiful may I add! White …show more content…

As everyone knows, White started acting at a very young age. Maybe she was just making an appearance and not even speaking, but she was on that television screen doing what she loves. She has wrote many books about her life and what it’s like to do the things that she does. If You Ask Me, a novel by Betty had some great quotes and life lessons in it. “If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.” Stated White. She always believed in laughter and being a better person, even if her sense of humor was crude at some point, she always made people laugh and smile about anything. Her fame has never got to her head in any way, she has been called a very Down to Earth person by many people that she meets. With all of the money that she makes she donates so much of it to a charity every so often. She never says that she is better that anyone else, but I honestly think that she

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